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If you think about it, torrent sites are like a modern day robinhood. They take profits from the rich and bring enjoyment to the poor.
by blackflame7000 10y ago
If you think about it, torrent sites are like a modern day robinhood. They take profits from the rich and bring enjoyment to the poor.
- bathory 10y agoi don't remember robin hood lining his pockets with truckloads of money he made off of the dodgy ads that all these torrent sites serve. and if its not ads, then it's the donations.
- josho 10y agoI suspect robin hood would have had the support of the people that he helped, so donations is appropriate. I'd say where the analog breaks down is the media companies aren't exactly extorting the people, nor price gouging.
- na85 10y ago>media companies aren't exactly extorting the people, nor price gouging. In your opinion.
- josho 10y agoOk, I'll bite. What makes you feel they are extorting consumers or price gouging?
- blackflame7000 10y agoBecause they bundle 200 channels of crap with the 5 channels that you actually want forcing just about everyone to overpay for what they're receiving.
- seanp2k2 10y agoHence the popularity of HBO Go. Showtime, Discovery, History, BBC are also working on theirs and have launched them in some countries. Sadly, Comcast refuses to make deals with most of them, so we can't e.g. Get a Discovery account because we already pay them through Comcast, AT&T, or Verizon despite a similar deal with nearly every other provider: https://www.discoverygo.com https://www.discoverygo.com . At least where I live, we get a choice between AT&T or Comcast, where AT&T is over land line DSL @768k not guaranteed, plus I'd have to pay for a phone line vs Comcast at up to 300mbit. Guess which I went with Anything that accelerates the downfall of the toxic incumbents in the US is a win in my book.
- dozzie 10y agoAT&T, obviously, as Comcast offers connection measured in millibits instead of kilobits per second.
- cabalamat 10y agoCopyright and patent laws amount to extortion because they are enforced by initiation of force.
- ekianjo 10y agoI don't remember Robin Hood being poor in the first place.
- ricksplat 10y agoIndeed Sir Robin of Locksley had been knighted so he was no mere rogue ...
- benbristow 10y agoIt's not cheap to supply all the bandwidth and infrastructure required for sites of KAT's magnitude. Also, the owners have got to eat as it's likely their full-time day job.
- draugadrotten 10y ago> If you think about it, torrent sites are like a modern day robinhood. They take profits from the rich and bring enjoyment to the poor. Over 2.1 billion people in the developing world lived on less than US $ 3.10 a day in 2012. Downloading torrents means you've got a computer, power, internet and most likely food and clean water. You're not 'poor'. You're mingy.
- blackflame7000 10y agoYes and some people make millions per day and on that scale I'm closer to $3.10. Poor is a relative term if you haven't figured that out. Thanks for lecturing us all on our extreme wealth though, I'm sure everyone feels better about themselves because of your statement.
- superuser2 10y agoA very, very small number of the people who work on films, television, and music are rich. Let's at least be honest here: to the extent that they're cutting studio revenues, the people who are going to feel it most are tradesmen making even shittier wages for sporadic project work as it comes even less frequently.